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Necrotic Touch

Spell

Necrotic Touch

Shadow

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Death Knight

Instant castTwenty yards

Your melee weapon attacks deal additional Shadow damage.

Necrotic Touch

Tooltip

Your melee weapon attacks deal additional Shadow damage.

How it works

  1. Effect 1 is School Damage (effect type 2).

What it does

Necrotic Touch is a Shadow spell with an instant cast and a range of 20 yards. When cast it deals Shadow damage.

Generated from the SpellEffect, SpellMisc, SpellCooldowns and SpellRange records in the current retail game build. Effects the client marks as internal hooks are left out.

Spell Details

SchoolShadow
Range20 yards (Twenty yards)
Cast timeInstant
Effect #1School Damage (2)

Raw client values from the current retail game build. Where the game data carries no name for an id, the id is shown as is.

Related

Multiple client spell records exist

The game client stores 8 separate Spell records named "Necrotic Touch". This page is record #71879. They are not merged: each record can belong to a different difficulty, caster, rank or tuning, so each keeps its own page.

Record What differs from this record Likely reason
#71875used by: Cast by Item - Icecrown 25 Normal Slow Melee Weapon Proc; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 0; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#71877used by: Cast by Item - Icecrown 25 Heroic Slow Melee Weapon Proc; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura, effect 0; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#309566used by: Cast by Black Bruise; school: Physical; duration: 10 sec; effect types: Apply Aura; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#309567used by: Cast by Necrotic Touch; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#315088used by: Cast by Necromancer Auto Attack Override; effect types: Weapon % Damage; different tooltip textA helper record another spell casts
#322879school: Physical; duration: until cancelled; effect types: Apply Aura, Apply Aura; different tooltip textA different effect setup
#360261school: Physical; cast time: 0.5 sec; effect values: 4 (this record: 0)Different tuning

Compared fields: SpellMisc difficulty rows, school, cast time and duration; Spell subtext and tooltip text; SpellEffect types and base values; journal and class usage. The reason column names the first difference found.

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